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    Default which paint for wooden shop furniture?

    what kind of paint do you use for your wooden workshop furniture and such? i think the main qualities i'm interested in here are "covering up cheap timber", "can handle a bit of wear and tear", "easy to patch up when it inevitably gets dinged up anyway", and "not too expensive"

    i guess most people's answer will probably be something along the lines of "whatever leftover paint i had lying around, or otherwise obtained for free", and that's pretty reasonable. but i don't have leftover paint lying around or know anyone who does, so i'll be buying new, probably from the big green shed

    what brands, types, or properties should i look for? anything i should avoid?

    i'm also open to hearing thoughts on colour choices if it's something you've given specific thought to

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    Short of going to more expensive two-pots, the toughest and cheapest paint that I know is labelled as paving paint. Can be either oil or water based.

    An even tougher version of that is marketed as factory floor paint - its designed to have forklifts driving on it all day and dropping pallets - but you may have difficulty buying it in small quantities.

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    These are a little contradictory because the hardest wearing are going to be the hardest to repair. I'd just use basic acrylic, water-based, easy to repair. I made the mistake of using a gloss enamel oil-based metal paint on something in my garage once. It took more than a month to dry.

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    "what kind of paint do you use for your wooden workshop furniture and such" easy I don't

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    If buying new from the big green shed, then I would go for the cheapest, water based, white you can find.

    1. Water based makes clean up so much easier and cheaper.
    2. White is normally available cheaper, in big 'tradie' buckets - it's surprising how much paint raw wood can swallow...]
    3. White increases your overall brightness in the shed, which is always helpful... I've stuck sheets of cattle feedlot 19mm used ply on my shed walls ($15 each!) and slapped matt ceiling white all over them before putting the tools up. Transformed the light levels in the shed. (The white also masked the 'rich' smell of cow waste and food until it gassed off...)

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